A Little Bit of Love Goes a Long, Long Way

I'll have to check with Denver in the morning if I messed up with the title.  Denver had preschool today, Valentine's Day, and they had a fun little party that I got to go to with him.  I missed the first part of the party when I was running Makenna to Auntie Lynn's so I could put my whole attention on Denver and helping with his class.  During that part Mrs. Korn taught them a cute little song about a little bit of love going a long way and Denver continued to sing it the rest of the day.  It was great, because it gave me the opportunity to remind him how a little bit of love does go a long way.  This Valentine's day I was re-reminded how much God loves us and how fortunate we are for all we have thanks to Him.  I couldn't be happier watching my children learn to love and to know more about God.  I hope each and every one of you felt God's love a little more today, along with some love to and from those whom you love.

Story Time

They made a placemat with all of the Valentine's cards they received.  I should've taken a picture of it; it was super cute (maybe it will show up on a future post).  After they were done making their placemat they got to choose one piece of candy to eat before moving on to their next project.

Denver's piece of candy he chose to eat at school.

Painting a Valentine

Building blocks with his friend, Matthew

Table Time, with friends Griffin & Colton

Tunnel Tag (aka Freeze Tag)

And follow the leader.

Rewind a Little: Sunday the kids and I stayed home from Church as Denver was getting over the stomach flu and Makenna was just starting antibiotics for an ear infection and a cold she had for almost 2 weeks.  During our time at home Denver and I got his Valentine's day cards ready for school.  We had a fun time filling out "Cars 2" Valentine's and making some pencil Valentine's out of rolos for his teachers.

Tonight we had a special little supper....as special as it can get for chislic and 2 kids! :)  None-the-less we had fun and finished the evening out with a movie at home as a family.  It was super fun and I'm so thankful for my family whom I love so very much!

My Valentine's Day Babies all dressed up for supper

(Yes, Denver's idea of dressing up was shorts!)

..and another try

...again?....

you get the picture....they don't care about the picture I want...

CHEESE!!!

We have a little princess on our hands.  Makenna LOVES princesses, but even more loves pretending she is one.  She wore her little tiara all day today and her daddy brought home some pretty flowers for his little princess for Valentine's day.  She had her tiara on still when I walked out of her bedroom tonight, but this is what I found when I went to check on her.

...sleeping on her princess pillow. 

What is it about your own sleeping baby....I could just stare at them forever, they are so precious, especially when they're sleeping.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Happy Valentine's Day!

We hope all of you had a great Valentine's Day today!  Evan and I decided it was definitely not our most romantic Valentine's day, but we still had a good day (for the most part).  Evan and I did splurge this year (other than birthdays which we don't usually get too crazy about we haven't bought each other gifts for a long time) and got each other gifts that we exchanged last night.  I got Evan a Keurig!  We've been having fun experimenting with it and Evan actually said it might be the best gift ever. :)  And Evan got me a special charm bracelet that I absolutely love!  This year has been a bit sressful at times with Evan's responsibilites of being part owner at the shop and it was nice to "show" each other how much we love each other by getting the other a fun gift!

Today we started our day off by going to Church, which both of us had in the back of our minds as we were getting ready..."is this really worth it?".  You see, we have 2 sicks kids.  If I had to guess, they both have RSV, therefore they could not go to the nursery.  It didn't take long and the kids got too loud and so we took turns out in the foyer with them.  During my turn Denver started coughing and ended up coughing so hard that he threw up.  In turn...we left Church before it was over!  We then came home for lunch, much needed naps, snowblowing the driveway, cleaning the house, laundry, pizza, watching the Olympics, and now for us adults...Evan playing Play Station and me blogging.  How romantic, huh? :)

Here are a couple pictures of the kiddos from today.

Not such a fun 1st Valentine's Day

The kids are doing okay and since my guess is RSV I don't plan on taking anyone in to the clinic unless one or both of them start showing some signs of respiratory distress or if the fevers continue too long, as they can't do much for RSV (nebs is pretty much the only option unless they end up developing a bacterial infection on top of the RSV which is possible).  Please pray for a quick recovery as I want my happy "babies" back!  Until then we'll continue with the motrin to keep the fevers down which have gotten better, typically only 99 degrees.

I haven't had a chance to do Makenna's 9 month pictures yet, as I want to wait until she feels better, but that post will be coming soon, hopefully!